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Mouse

The name mouse, coined at the Stanford Research Institute, derives from the resemblance of early models (which had a cord attached to the rear part of the device, suggesting the idea of a tail) to the common eponymous rodent.

The first marketed integrated mouse - shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation - came with the Xerox 8010 Star Information System in 1981.

Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1963.

The computer industry often measures mouse sensitivity in terms of counts per inch (CPI), commonly expressed less correctly as dots per inch (DPI) - the number of steps the mouse will report when it moves one inch.

Keyboard

The QWERTY layout is an invention of Christopher Sholes.

Alternative layouts do exist, the best known of which is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard; however, these layouts are not in widespread use.

Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter that we commonly use today in 1868.

Monitor

The first cathode ray tube scanning device was invented by the German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1897.

Floppy Disk

In 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today.

The "floppy" was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. The first disks were designed for loading microcodes into the controller of the Merlin (IBM 3330) disk pack file (a 100 MB storage device).

Printer

In 1953, the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer.

In 1938, Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox, the foundation technology for laser printers to come.

Compact Disc (CD)

James Russell invented the compact disk in 1965.

In 1979, Philips and Sony set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. The task force, led by prominent members Kees Immink and Toshitada Doi, progressed the research into laser technology and optical discs that had been started by Philips in 1977.[2] After a year of experimentation and discussion, the taskforce produced the Red Book, the Compact Disc standard.

Touch Screen

In 1971, the first "touch sensor" was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of  Elographics) while he was an instructor at the University of Kentucky.

SOME FAMOUS PERSONS

• Ramus Lerdorf developed PHP.

• Steve Case is the founder, CEO  and chairman of American Online.

• Tim Berners Lee founded World Wide Web Consortium(W3C).

• Charles Goldfarb created SGML and wrote the first SGML Parser.

• Ted Nelson is the father of Hypertext.

• Mark Andreessen founded the Mosaic Browser and was the cofounder of Netscape Communications.

• George Boole is the mathematician who helped establish modern symbolic logic, especially by his algebra of logic, a two-valued system.

• Larry Ellison is the cofounder and CEO of Oracle Corp.

• Larry Wall created PERL programming language.

• Gordon Moore co-founded Intel Corporation in 1968 and predicted that the number of transistors that the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year.

• Konrad Zuse built the world's first binary digit computer: Z1

• Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft.

• Alan Turing is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence.

• Bill Gates is co-founder, chairman and chief software architect for Microsoft Corporation.

• Jeff Bezos is founder and CEO of Amazon.com

•  Linus Torwalds wrote parts of Linux OS in 1991 and invited users to improve on the original open language system he created.

• Vint Cerf co-invented the TCP/IP Internet protocol with Robert Kahn in 1973.

• Dennis Ritchie co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Ken Thompson.

• Bjarne Stroustrup is the inventor of the C++ programming language.

• James Gosling designed the original Java language and wrote "Emacs" for Unix systems.

• Charles Babbage developed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, two punched-card controlled general purpose calculators.

• Ramus lerdorf developed PHP.

• Paul Zimmerman - Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).

•  Shawn Fanning created Napster.

A TRIBUTE TO STEVE JOBS

AS A TRIBUTE TO STEVE JOBS SOME QUESTIONS RELATED TO HIM MAY COME AS EXPECTED BUT TILL NOW IN THE THREE VERSIONS QUESTIONS HADN'T BEEN ASKED RELATED TO HIM IN THE FINALS EVEN WHICH WAS NOT EXPECTED BUT WHO KNOWS THE QUIZMASTER MAY SUPRISE THE PARTICIPANTS OF THOSE REGIONS IN WHICH TCS IS ARRIVING FOR THE FIRST TIME.QUESTIONS WILL BE REALLY EASY FOR THEM. MOSTLY IT WILL BE FROM PREVIOUS YEARS QUESTIONS. SO THEY MUST NOT WORK HARD ON NEW BEE TOPICS BUT CONCENTRATE ON OLD ONES.  Question 1

Apple’s early logo was a dedication to which famous personality and also featured a famous incident related to him? newton

Question 2

Identify the person who is famous for designing ipods and imacs ? jonathan eve-design engineer

Question 3

Which iconic campaign from Apple was inspired by a famous George Orwell novel and was directed by Ridley Scott ?1984 macintosh ad

Question 4

Who co founded Apple with Jobs and Wozniak but soon gave up his share in the new company for $600-$800?ronald wayne

Question 5

Which company did Steve Jobs start after quitting Apple, which was subsequently acquired by Apple in 1996?next computer systems

Question 6

What was the official salary of Steve Jobs as the C.E.O of Apple?1 dollar

Question 7

In 1993, which ill fated product was launched by Apple which was quite ahead of its time but failed to achieve commercial success?

Apple mesaage pad newton pda

Question 8

Which famous acquisition deal made Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in  The Walt Disney Company in 2006?disney bought pixar from, apple

Question 9

Which was the first Apple product to commercialize Graphical User Interface in year 1983?

Apple lisa

IMPORTANT  QUESTIONS(MUST READ)

Which company's name is derived from Voice Data & Phone?

Vodafone

Which Microsoft hardware product, launched in 2000, was created by Seamus Blackley and Kevin

Bachus ?

X Box

What is Bacon mail?

Mail for which you have subscribed but get filtered as SPAM.

Which R&D organisation started Projects Garuda, Setu, Veda, Vyasa, Vidwan, Vidur?

C-DAC

The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by

Leonardo da Vinci. Who purchased it in 1994 for 30.8 Million $ making it the costliest book ever?

Bill Gates

‘A Space’ – in Facebook is a social networking site for which category of people?

Spies/Espionages

The film’s Adina’s deck, Odd Girl Out and Shredderman Rules create awareness about which internet

phenomenon?

Cyber Ragging

Which consulting major has a networking platform called D-Street?

Deloitte

Which computer industry billionaire owns Valley Crest Companies, Americas largest landscaping firm?

Michael Dell

Identify the company which divides its values into Engaging you, Achieving Together, Passion for

Innvovation, Very Human?

Nokia

MIT professor, Dr. Y. W. Lee invested his life savings in which company in 1964?

 Bose

NetWeaver is a product from which IT Giant?

SAP

DilipKalra founded which successful Indian travel company?

MakeMyTrip.com

Agilent is a company which designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement

instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. It is a successor of which company’s

Engineering division?

HP

Who is the world’s largest digital camera maker?

Canon

What term first appeared in the book, “Mathematics and the imagination”?

Googol

This term was first coined by Sir Walter Scott in his famous novel 'Ivanhoe'. It is widely used in business

and journalism these days. What is it?

Freelancer

Which communication company was founded by the founders of the peer to peer sharing network

Kazaa?

Skype

He was born to Florence Spellman, an unwed mother at the age of 17. His adoptive father was a Jew

who came from Ellis Island. Name this business tycoon.

Larry Ellison

What was the first mobile by Motorola?

Dynatac

What was the new name of Legend Computers?

Lenovo Computers

What is the 419 Fraud?

Nigerian Email Scam

About what did Indira Gandhi say in 1975 "a Government organ, it is going to remain a Government

organ”?

AIR

Which company started as Haloid Corporation?

Xerox

What was founded by Curtis Priem(ex-SUN engineer., Chris Malachowsky(ex-SUN engineer.& Jen Hsun

Huang(ex-AMD. in 1993?

Nvidia

Visual Computing Labs (VCL) is an animation, visual effects and game asset building facility servicing

production for which Tata company?

Tata Elxsi

What was first made by Gisecke&Devrient in 1991 in sizes of 85.6X53.9X0.76mm &26X15X0.76

mm, with the later being more popular?

SIM Card

What was first patented in 1949 as “classifying apparatus and methods” and described as

“article classification through the medium of identifying patterns”?

Bar Code

In Turkish, what means "the holy meeting place?"

Orkut

This term was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 to refer to large custom-built

tabulators IBM made for Columbia University?

Super Computing

This Founder and Chairman of infoUSA in order to give back something to his alma mater started

a B school there. Name him.

Vinod Gupta (VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur)

Garage is an initiative by HP for which set of people / businesses?

Startups

What was the name that Apple wanted to use for its Internet Kiosks?

iPod

Why the first commercially available version of the Oracle database was called Oracle 2?

So that people don’t think that they are an amateur company launching their first product.

Who are Scarlett Collar Workers?

People in the Pornography business

Who is the single largest shareholder of Disney?

Steve Jobs

According to a study by Tom Chavez of "Rapt", this feature costs Google $110 million a year as

1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising. Which feature?

I’m Feeling Lucky

What was added to the Morse code on 24th May 2004, its 160th Anniversary?

@ Symbol

What was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland? When launched it wasaimed at educated adults.

Encyclopedia Britannica

How was the naming of HP decided between Bill Hewlett and David Packard?

Coin Toss

TAGLINES AND SOME IMPORTANT COMPANIES ASKED IN TCS COMMONLY

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FAMOUS COMPANIES AND TAGLINES

• Better by Adobe.                                                                             Adobe
• ...And You Are Done!                                                                      Amazon.com
• Think different.                                                                                 Apple Computer
• The power to be your best.                                                              Apple Computer
• Think outside the box.                                                                      Apple Computer
• Reach out and touch someone.                                                         AT&T
• The world’s networking company.                                                    AT&T
• Better sound through research.                                                          BOSE
• Empowering the Internet generation.                                                 Cisco Systems
• The source for computing and technology.                                         CNET
• The power of all of us.                                                                      eBay
• The world’s online marketplace.                                                       eBay
• Don’t just travel. Travel right.                                                           Expedia.com
• Imagination at work.                                                                        General Electric
• We bring good things to life.                                                            General Electric
• Invent.                                                                                            Hewlett Packard
• Solutions for a small planet.                                                             IBM
• Intel Inside.                                                                                     Intel
• Share moments. Share life.                                                              Kodak
• Creating value through true convergence.                                          Lucent Technologies
• Where do you want to go today?                                                     Microsoft
• Your potential. Our passion.                                                             Microsoft
• Connecting people.                                                                          Nokia
• Software powers the Internet.                                                          Oracle
• Slightly ahead of its time.                                                                  Panasonic
• You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.                                        Radio Shack
• The fun develops instantly.                                                                Polaroid
• Experience success.                                                                         Salesforce.com
• The network is the computer.                                                           Sun Microsystems
• Choose freedom.                                                                             Toshiba
• Imagine it. Done.                                                                              Unisys
• We never stop working for you.                                                        Verizon Wireless
• Can you hear me now?...Good!                                                        Verizon Wireless
• We’re moving beyond documents.                                                     Xerox
• Believe.                                                                                            Yahoo! Personals
• Where technology means business.                                                    ZDNet
• The quality goes in before the name goes on.                                      Zenith
• Let your fingers do the walking.                                                         Yellow Pages
• Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man.                                  Ace Hardware
• Intel inside logo (four-note theme)                                                      Intel

·         Windows XP - Do More with Less

·         HP - Invent ; Everything is Possible

·         Computer Associates - The software that powers the E Business

·         CSC - Experience. Results.

·         Accenture - High Performance. Delivered

·         IBM - ON DEMAND

·         LENOVO - We are building a new technology company. 

·         TCS - Beyond the Obvious 

·         Infosys - Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values;Improve your odds with Infosys Predictability

·         WIPRO - Applying Thought

·         EMC - Where Information Lives.

·         Adobe - Simplicity at work. Better by adobe.

·         Macromedia - What the web can be.

   INDIAN MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR COMPANIES TAGLINE | SLOGAN

      

·         Airtel     -                  "Express Yourself"
 Vodafone  -              "Wherever you go, our network follows.",

·                                            "Happy  To Help",

·                                            "Make the Most of Now"..

Reliance 

·         Communications  - "Growth is life", 

·                                            " Indian's No.1 Network"

·         Idea -                        "What An Idea", "No Idea, Get Idea"

·         BSNL  -                     "Ghar Ki Pehchan.."

·         Tata DoCoMo -        "Keep it Simple",

·         Tata Indicom -        "Do More, Live More","Suno Dil Ki Awaz"

·          Aircel -                    " Go for It !"

·         Videocon -               "Experience Change"

·         Virgin Mobile -       "Think Hatke"

·         Uninor -                  "Value For Money"

COMPANIES

  

3Com – Network technology producer; the three coms are computer, communication, and compatibility.

Accenture – from "Accent on the future". Thename Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Before January 1, 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting.

Acer – Born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to Acer in 1987. The Latin word for “sharp, acute, able and facile”

Adobe Systems – from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.

Akai – named for its founder, Masukichi Akai.

Alcatel-Lucent – Alcatel was named from Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécomunications et d'Electronique. It took over Lucent Technologies in 2006.

AltaVista – Spanish for "high view".

Amazon.com – founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore. (Alternative: Amazon was chosen to cash in on the popularity of

Yahoo, which listed entries alphabetically.)

AMD – Advanced Micro Devices. 

Amstrad – Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc was founded by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the UK. The name is a contraction of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.

AOL – from America Online. The company was founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services.

Apache – according to the project's 1997 FAQ: "The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been

written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server."

Apple – For the favorite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard, and to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time – which had names such as IBM, DEC, Cincom and Tesseract.

Ask.com – search engine formerly named after Jeeves, the gentleman's gentleman (valet, not butler) in P. G. Wodehouse's series of books. Ask Jeeves was shortened to Ask in 2006.

Asus – named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology. The first three letters of the word were dropped to get a high position in alphabetical listings. An Asus company named Pegatron, using the spare letters, was spun off in 2008.

AT&T – the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.

 Atari – named from the board game Go. "Atari" is a Japanese word to describe a position where an opponent's stones are in danger of being captured. It is similar, though not identical, to "check" in chess. The original games company was American

but wanted a Japanese-sounding name.

BenQ – Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life

Blaupunkt – Blaupunkt ("Blue dot") was founded in 1923 under the name "Ideal". Its core business was the manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte. The quality symbol would become a trademark and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.

Bose Corporation – named after founder Amar Bose.

BSNL – from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (India Communications Corporation Limited).

CA – Computer Associates was founded in 1976 as Computer Associates International, Inc. by Charles Wang

Canon – Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory the new name (1935) derived from the name of the company's first camera, the Kwanon, in turn named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy.

Casio – from the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao, who had set up the company Kashio Seisakujo as a subcontractor factory.

Cisco – short for San Francisco.

Comcast – from communications and broadcast.

Compaq – from computer and "pack" to denote a small integral object; or: Compatibility And Quality; or: from the company's first product, the

very compact  Compaq Portable.

COMSAT – a contraction of communications satellites. This American digital

telecommunications and satellite company was founded during the era of U.S. President John F. Kennedy era to develop the technology.

Corel – from Cowpland Research Laboratory, after the name of the company's founder, Dr. Michael Cowpland.

Cray – supercomputer company named after its founder, Seymour Cray.

Debian – project founder Ian Murdock named it after himself and his girlfriend, Debra.

Dell – named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.

Digg, Inc.- Kevin Rose's friend David Prager originally wanted to call the site "Diggnation", but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name

"Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called "Digg" instead of "Dig" because the domain name "dig.com" was previously registered, by Walt Disney Internet Group. "Diggnation" would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast

discussing popular stories from Digg.

EA Games – EA is from Electronic Arts. The company was founded in May 1982 as Amazin' Software and changed its name to Electronic Arts in October the same year.

 eBay – Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. "Echo Bay" didn't refer to the town in Nevada, "It just sounded cool", Omidyar reportedly said. Echo Bay Mines Limited, a gold mining company, had already taken EchoBay.com, so Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.

EDS – Electronic Data Systems, founded in 1962 by former IBM salesman Ross Perot. According to the company history. "He chose Electronic Data Systems from potential names he scribbled on a pledge envelope during a service at Highland Park

Presbyterian Church in Dallas."

ESPN – Entertainment and Sports Programming Network

Epson – Epson Seiko Corporation, the Japanese printer and peripheral manufacturer, was named from "Son of Electronic Printer"

Facebook – name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Fuji – named after Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan.

Google – an originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

Haier – Chinese "sea" and (a transliteration character; also means "you" in Literary Chinese).

HCL – Hindustan Computers Ltd, Indian software company founded by Shiv Nadar.

 HP – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hitachi – old place name, literally "sunrise".

HMV – from "His Master's Voice", which appeared in 1899 as the title of a painting of Nipper, a Jack Russell terrier, listening to a gramophone.

Honeywell – from the name of Mark Honeywell, founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and was finally called Honeywell Inc. in 1963.

Hotmail – Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" – the markup language used to write web

pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. (At one time, if you clicked on Hotmail's 'mail' tab, you would have seen "HoTMaiL" in the URL, but since Hotmail is now Windows Live Mail, it is no longer there.)

HTC Corporation – A contraction of its original corporate name, High Tech Computer

Corporation.

IBM – named by Tom (Thomas John) Watson Sr, an ex-employee of National Cash Register (NCR Corporation). To one-up them in all respects, he called his company International Business Machines.

IKEA – a composite of the first letters in the Swedish founder Ingvar Kamprad's name in addition to the first letters of the names of the property and the village in which he grew up: Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd.

Intel – Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N M Electronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to "more noise". Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had already been taken, so they used the initial syllables (INTegrated ELectronics). To avoid potential conflicts with other companies with similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000 from a company called Intelco. (Source: Intel 15 Years Corporate Anniversary Brochure)

Ittiam Systems – an Indian company named fromthe famous philosophical dictum: "I think therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum).

Infosys – An Indian software major. "Information Systems"

Kodak – Both the Kodak camera and the name were the invention of founder George Eastman. The letter "K" was a favorite with Eastman; he felt it a strong and incisive letter. He tried out various combinations of words starting and ending with

"K". He saw three advantages in the name. It had the merits of a trademark word, would not be mispronounced and the name did not resemble anything in the art. There is a misconception that the name was chosen because of its similarity to

the sound produced by the shutter of the camera.

Konica – it was earlier known as Konishiroku Kogaku. Konishiroku in turn is the short for Konishiya Rokubeiten which was the first name of the company established by Rokusaburo Sugiura in the 1850s.

Lenovo Group – a portmanteau of "Le-" (from former name Legend) and "novo", pseudo-Latin for "new". This Chinese company took over IBM's PC division.

LG – from the combination of two popular Korean brands, Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexico, publicists explained the name change as an abbreviation to Linea Goldstar, Spanish for Goldstar Line).

Lotus Software – Mitch Kapor named his company after the Lotus Position or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental M ation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Lucent Technologies – a spin-off from AT&T, it was named Lucent (meaning "luminous" or "glowing with light") because "light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected the company's operating and guiding business philosophy", according to the Landor Associates staff who chose the name. It was taken over by Alcatel to

form Alcatel-Lucent in 2006.

Lycos – from Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders.

Microsoft – coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to microcomputer software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on 3/2/1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo. The "slash

between the 'o' and „s‟ [in the Microsoft logo] emphasizes the "soft" part of the name and conveys motion and speed.

Motorola – Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company (at the time, Galvin Manufacturing Company) started manufacturing radios for cars. Many audio equipment makers of the era used the "ola" ending for their products,

most famously the "Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The name was meant to convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". It became so widely recognized that the company later adopted it as the company name.

Mozilla Foundation – from the name of the web browser that preceded Netscape Navigator. When Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace the Mosaic browser, it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer,

Godzilla) by Jamie Zawinski.

Napster - The service was named Napster after Fanning's hairstyle-based nickname.

Nero – Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome ("Rom" is the German spelling of "Rome").

Netscape – Originally the product name of the company's web browser ("Mosaic

Communications Netscape Web Navigator"). The company adopted the product name after the University of Illinois threatened to sue for trademark infringement over the use of the Mosaic name. Netscape is the combination of network and landscape.

Nikon – the original name was Nippon Kogaku, meaning "Japanese Optical".

Nintendo – Nintendo is the transliteration of the company's Japanese name, nintendou (任天堂). The first (nin) can be translated as to "entrusted"; ten-dou means "heaven".

Nissan – the company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means "Japan Industries".

Nokia – started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.

 Nortel Networks – named from Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Bay Networks. The company was originally spun off from the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd in 1895 as Northern Electric and Manufacturing, and traded as

Northern Electric from 1914 to 1976.

Novartis – after the Latin expression "novae artes" which means something like "new skills".

Oracle – Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA. The code name for the project was Oracle. The project was designed to use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project was eventually terminated but they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. Later

they changed the name of the company, Relational Software Inc., to the name of the product.

Pixar – from pixel and the co-founder's name, Alvy Ray Smith. According to the biography "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman, the 'el' in pixel was changed to 'ar' because 'ar' is frequently used in Spanish verbs,

implying the name means "To Pix". 

Quad – an acronym for Quality Unit Amplified Domestic. Quad Electroacoustics was founded in 1936 by Peter Walker, and was formerly called the Acoustical Manufacturing Company.


Qualcomm – Quality Communication

Red Hat – while at college, company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) by his grandfather. People would turn to him to solve their problems and he was referred to as that guy in the red hat.

By the time he wrote the manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux he had lost the cap, so the manual included an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found.

Research In Motion – from the phrase "poetry in motion", which company founder Mike Lazaridis had seen used to describe a football player.

Samsonite – named from the Biblical character Samson, renowned for his strength.


setcom – software engineering and testing for communications, an international group of companies active in the field of wireless test solutions.

Sharp – Japanese consumer electronics company named from its first product, an ever-sharp pencil.

SGI – Silicon Graphics Inc.


Siemens – founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske. The company was originally called Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske

SmartBear Software – named from "John Irving’s Hotel New Hampshire, a surreal novel in which a 'smart bear' plays an important role," according to founder Jason Cohen.In 2007, he sold to AutomatedQA, which renamed itself after its more memorable subsidiary in 2010.


Skype – the original concept for the name was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.

Sony – from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang word used by

Americans to refer to a bright youngster, "since we were sonny boys working in sound and vision", said Akio Morita. The company was founded as Tokyo Tsoshiu Kogyo KK (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) in 1946, and changed its name to Sony in 1958. Sony was chosen as it could be pronounced easily in many languages.

Sperry – company founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930), originally as Sperry Gyroscope Company. Sperry took over Univac, and eventually was itself taken over by Burroughs. The merged companies became Unisys, from United Information Systems.

 Sprint – from its parent company, Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal Communications. At the time, pipelines and railroad tracks were the cheapest

place to lay communications lines, as the right-of way was already leased or owned.

Sun Microsystems – its founders designed their first workstation in their dorm at Stanford University, and chose the name Stanford University Network for their product, hoping to sell it to the college. They didn't.


SuSE – from Software und System-Entwicklung (software and system development). The company was bought by Novell for its Linux distribution.

TCS – from Tata Consultancy Services, from India's Tata Group, named after founder and legendary industrialist Jamshedji Tata.

Toshiba – named from the merger of consumer goods company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and electrical firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).

Tucows – an acronym for The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software.


Twitter - social networking and microblogging service. The name was derived from the original idea 'Twitch', which didn't bring up the right imagery.

Unisys – from United Information Systems, the new name for the company that resulted from the merging of two old mainframe computer companies, Burroughs and Sperry [Sperry Univac/Sperry Rand]. It united two incompatible ranges. The newborn Unisys was briefly the world's second-largest computer company, after IBM.


Ubuntu Foundation – named from a Zulu word (ùɓúntú) that translates as "humanity to others".

UUNET – one of the industry's oldest and largest Internet Service Providers, named from UNIX-to-UNIX Network.

Verizon – a portmanteau of veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon.

Virgin – founder Richard Branson started a magazine called Student while still at school. In his autobiography, Losing My Virginity, Branson says that when they were starting a business to sell records by mail order, "one of the girls suggested:

'What about Virgin? We're complete virgins at business.'”.

Vodafone – from Voice, Data, Telefone. Vodafone made the UK's first mobile call at a few minutes past midnight on 1 January 1985.


VMware – Virtual Machine [soft]ware

Wipro – from Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd Wipro Technologies. The company started as a modest Vanaspati and laundry soap producer and is now also an IT services giant.

Xerox – named from xerography, a word derived from the Greek xeros (dry) and graphos (writing). The company was founded as The Haloid Company in 1906, launched its first XeroX copier in 1949, and changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958.

Yahoo! – The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered

themselves yahoos. It's also an interjection sometimes associated with United States

Southerners' and Westerners' expression of joy, as alluded to in Yahoo.com commercials that end with someone singing the word "yahoo". It is also sometime jokingly referred to by its backronym, Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.


Zend Technologies – a contraction derived from the names of Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, the two founders.

INDIAN COMPANIES TAGLINES

Apple-"Byte into an Apple", 
           "Think Different"
>Accenture- "High Performance, Delivered"
                    "Who says you can’t be big and nimble?"(Elephant Surfing Ad)
>Acer- "Emporing People"
>Nokia- "Connecting People"
>Cisco- "Welcome To The Human Network"
>IBM-"THINK"
>Google- "Don't Be Evil"
>Kodak-"You press the button, we do the rest."(1892)
>Infosys- "Powered By Intellect, Driven By Values"
>Microsoft- "Where Do You Want To Go Today"(1994-2002)
                  "Your Potential, Our Passion"(2006-2011)
                  "Be What's Next"(2011-Present)
>Microsoft Xbox- "Life is short. Play more"
>Cognizant- "Passion For Building Stronger Businesses"
>Dell- "Yours Is Here"
         "The Power to Do More"

>Electronics Arts- "We See Farther.",
                             "If it's in the game, it's in the game.",
                             "EA Games, challenge everything.",
                             "EA Sports, it's in the game."
                             

>Wipro- "Applying Thought"
>Panasonic- "Ideas For Life"
>Epson- "Exceed Your Vision"
>Olympus- "Your Vision, Our Future"
>Onida- "Designed With You In Mind"(Nice one, I like it!!)
>General Electric(GE)- "Imagination at Work"
>Hitachi- "Inspire The Next"
>Philips- "Sense And Simplicity"
>MicroMax- "Nothing Like Anything"(Logo is Changed Now,Check it out)
>Virgin Mobile- "Think Hatke"
>Amazon.com- "..and you are done
>BigAdda.com- "Lets Catch Up"
>Cloob.com- "Virtual society of Iranians all across the world"
>Bing- "Bing and Decide"
          "Decision Engine"
>deviantArt.com- "Where art meets application!"
>ebay.com- "Connecting buyers and sellers globally."
                   "What ever it is, you can get it on eBay."
                   "Buy it, sell it, love it"
>Flixter,Inc- "Watch movies. Tell friends."
>Friendster.com-"Living the Game"
>Google+(Plus)- "Real-life sharing rethought for the web"
>Hyves.nl-"Always in touch with your friends"
>LinkedIn.com- "Relationships Matter"
>Myspace.com- "A Place for Friends"
>Youtube- "Broadcast Yourself"
>Slideshare.net- "Present Yourself"
>Twitter- "The Best Way To Discover What's New In Your World"
               "What' Happening Right Now"(Slightly Different,Exactly IDK)
>Monster.com- "Right Jobs, Right Candidates"
                        "Your Calling, is Calling"
>Makemytrip- "Wish Click Go"
>Ning.com- "The World's Largest Platform for Creating Social Websites"
>Yatra.com- "Smarter Way To Travel"
>iBiBo- "I Build I Bond"
>Bebo.com- "Blog Early, Blog Often"

Major Tech Company Acquisitions & Mergers(IMPORTANT)


>Google-Keyhole Inc,Youtube,Doubleclick,GrandCentral,Aardvark,Agnilux,Admob,Picnik

->Yahoo!-Four11,Viaweb,Yoyodyne,Broadcast.com,Geocities,Encompass,Arthas.com,OnlineAnywhere,Sold.com,
eGroups,Overture Services Inc,
Inktomi Corp,Hotjobs.com,Oddpost,MusicmatchJukebox,blo.gs,
delicious,Bix.com,MyBlogLog,BlueLithium,
Zimbra,Maven Networks,Koprol,Dapper,Spreets,IntoNow.

->Apple Inc.
Subsidiaries- Braeburn Capital, FileMaker Inc.
Acquisitions-NeXT,Coral Software,Power Computing,Raycer Graphics,Nothing Real,Lala.com,Emagic,Proximity,P.A.Semi,Quattro Wireless,Siri,Poly9
Acquired Authentec( samsung security partners  for android devices)

->Electronics Arts-Distinctive Software Inc.,Kingsoft GmbH,Maxis,Vision Software,ABC Software,DreamWorks Interactive,pogo.com,JAMDAT mobile,Origin,SingShot Media, Hands-On Mobile,Mythic Entertainment,Playfish,J2Play,PopCap Games.


->Research In Motion- QNX Software Systems,TinyHippos,The Astonishing Tribe,Scoreloop.

->Symantec-
Peter Norton Computing, C&E Software, Dynamic Microprocessor Associates,Think Tech.,Delrina,AXENT Technologies,Recourse Technologies,PowerQuest,BrightMail,Veritas Software*,Sygate Technologies,Altiris*,Verisign Security Business.

->Adobe Systems-
Aldus,Photoshop,Frame Technology,Macromedia*,Omniture,Echosign,Iridas Technology,Demdex.

>Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)-
Citi Global Services Limited,
TKS-Teknosoft,Pheonix Global Solutions, CMC Limited(51%).

->Nokia-
Symbian Ltd.,Navteq*,Intellisync Corp,Sega.com Inc,Amber Networks,NGI Industrial,DiscoveryCom Inc,Network Alchemy Inc,Wireless Infrastructure assets of Motorola.

->Oracle Corp.-
Art Technology Group,Phase Forward,InQuira,Pillar Data Systems,Sun Microsystems*,BEA Systems*,Bharosa Inc*,Agile Software Corporation,Hyperion Corp*,Stellent Inc,Siebel Systems*,i-flex*,Peoplesoft*,Thinking Machine Corp.,MySQL AB.

->America Online(AOL)-The Huffington Post,About.me,TechCrunch,Bebo*,Tacoda*,Yadda,Weblogs Inc,Advertising.Com*,SingingFish,Nullsfot*,Gateway.net*,MapQuest*,Compuserve,Netscape*,Mirabilis,BookLink.

>eBay Inc.-
Half.com,Paypal,Baazee.com,Eachnet,Craiglist,Rent.com,Shopping.com,StubHub,Meetup.com,Bill Me Later,GSI Commerce,dba.dk&bilbasen.dk.,StumbleUpon.

>AMAZON
junglee.com, endless.com,depreviews,woot,imdb,alexa

 >MICROSOFT
Acquires skype from ebay

>ATOS ORIGIN---- ceo---- Thierry Breton(olympic IT partners till 2016)